Giving Ticks Drymouth | Headline Science

Researchers at Louisiana State University are working on a way to kill ticks by targeting their saliva. Using a potassium channel inhibitor they developed, the ticks drank dramatically less blood and died within twelve hours, which prevents ticks from transmitting pathogens like Lyme disease. These research findings were presented at the American Chemical Society’s Fall 2019 National Meeting and Exposition in San Diego.

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[aerofpv]

Thank you ... thank you ... thank you and I hope this gets implemented soon enough because far to many people are hurting not only from tick diseases but from the neglect and incompetence of our own Government.

[achidifrick]

I hope the downstream effects get tested too in the future.

[citruc]

so probably not a good idea to spray insecticide in your backyard but perfectly fine to spray it on corn, you know corn the stuff we eat the stuff that's in everything aka high fructose corn syrup, you actually paid good money and went to college to come up with that idea, please don't run for office

[Eric_McBrearty]

Great concept. I was recently thinking about how to deploy contaminated blood to the tick population. Ideally I wanted a heated blood sac that has a penetrable surface, that can be worn as a dog collar. The penetrable surface that does not need repair is what stumps me. The closest answer that I can come up with is genetically modified rabbits. This obviously has its own problems. Such as accidental wild release.